speakerSplit: Break and Stretch if Multiple Persons per Cell

In trinker/qdap2: Bridging the gap between qualitative data and quantitative analysis

Description

Look for cells with multiple people and create separate rows for each person.

Usage

  speakerSplit(dataframe, person.var = 1,
    sep = c("and", "&", ","), track.reps = FALSE)

Arguments

dataframe	A dataframe that contains the person variable.
person.var	The person variable to be stretched.
sep	The separator(s) to search for and break on. Default is: c(".", "_", ";")
track.reps	logical. If TRUE leaves the row names of person variable cells that were repeated and stretched.

Value

Returns an expanded dataframe with person variable stretched and accompanying rows repeated.

Examples

DATA$person <- as.character(DATA$person)
DATA$person[c(1, 4, 6)] <- c("greg, sally, & sam",
    "greg, sally", "sam and sally")

speakerSplit(DATA)
speakerSplit(DATA, track.reps=TRUE)

DATA$person[c(1, 4, 6)] <- c("greg_sally_sam",
    "greg.sally", "sam; sally")

speakerSplit(DATA, sep = c(".", "_", ";"))

DATA <- qdap::DATA  #reset DATA

trinker/qdap2 documentation built on May 31, 2019, 9:47 p.m.